TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue III: Earthsong Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of a trilogy following 1984 and 1987 Elgin. In this volume the women’s revolution begins with a minority of the men supporting them, but most men are still violently resisting at the end of the novel. 

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Rpt. as Native Tongue 3: Earthsong. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 257-68. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with a “Foreword: Evolutionary Song” on v-ix and an “Afterword: The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 221-34. PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue II: The Judas Rose Y1 - 1987 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Elgin in which the women’s plan to teach more women the women’s language is complicated by the presence of aliens on Earth and the infiltration of their movement by a woman at the instigation of the men. The aliens note that Earth women are ready to move onto a higher stage of civilization but that the me are not. 

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Rpt. as Native Tongue 2: The Judas Rose. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 365-80. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: The Veil of Language” by Rebecca Romney on vii-ix and an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 407-25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hush My Mouth" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Charles G. Waugh ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternate history in which during the U.S. Civil War both North and South refuse to allow Blacks to serve and the war ends in a stalemate with neither side winning. The depleted southern forces return home riddled with disease and all whites die or, in a few cases, are killed. New Africa, the old South, was populated by people divided by their place of origin, without a common language, and unwilling to work together. A sect of Silents, who vow never to speak, arise to remind people of the sin of Pride.

JF - Alternate Histories: Eleven Stories Stories of the World As it Might Have Been PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Fiction and Feminism. Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams (Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), 311-18.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yonder Comes the Other End of Time Y1 - 1986 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in conflict with a bureaucratic eutopia. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy that traces the development of a women’s language that will allow them to function in a dystopia of male domination. This volume depicts the dystopia in which women are barely considered to be human. Women no longer have the vote, and the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution takes all civil rights away from women. See also her “An Update on Láaden.” Aurora Speculative Feminism, no. 23 (8.3) (Winter 1983-84): 10-13. 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org), 1987 and 1994 Elgin and her A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1985. Rev. as A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. 2nd ed. Ed. Diane Martin. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1988.

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Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2000 with an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 305-37. 2nd. ed. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: Giving Name to the Nameless” by Leni Zumas on v-ix, an Appendix From A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan” on 332-35, and an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 337-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "School Days" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian computer-based education of the future compared to the failed education of our day.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Course Notes" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The future of computer-based learning through the description of a clearly biased course on its history. 

JF - Aurora Speculative Feminism VL - no. 23 (8.3) UR - 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Seventh Level Y1 - 1972 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Development of 1969 Elgin. "For the Sake of Grace," which is reprinted here (7-31). In the patriarchal society one woman has risen to the top level, where she is constantly under attack.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Furthest Y1 - 1971 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with women in an inferior position.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Communipaths Y1 - 1970 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that uses those with telepathic ability, known as Communipaths, to send information throughout the galaxy. They are raised them in a crèche and are assigns them to a particular location where they live their brief lives communicating. This changes with the birth of a particularly powerful telepath.

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Ace Double bound with 1970 Trimble.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Sake of Grace" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Patriarchal dystopia. Women considered inferior and adult males dominate all women. Resistant women are medicated. Occupation by competitive exam with poetry the occupation with the highest status. See also 1972 Elgin and 1978 Russ.

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Rpt. in World's Best Science Fiction 1970. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1970), 105-27; in her At the Seventh Level (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 7-31; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 215-36.

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